Monday, December 04, 2006

The Litvinenko "assassignation"

AJ Strata points out something interesting things about polonium 210. Besides being difficult to produce and something that would have been easily traceable, it is expensive. So expensive that it might have been a multi-million dollar dose that killed him. Also, Litvinenko was involved with nuclear smuggling in the past. Which leads to this question, "Was Litvinenko involved in a plot to build a dirty bomb?" The autopsy should tell us how much he was exposed to and, as Strata notes, it should let us know if the Russians were involved or not.